The Dark Mirror - German Cinema Between Hitler & Hollywood

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-520-23311-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 334 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism

Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas—Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's—in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s, showing how Nazi filmmakers appropriated Hollywood conventions and how German film exiles reworked German cultural material in their efforts to find a working base in the Hollywood studio system. Through detailed readings of specific films, Koepnick provides a vivid sense of the give and take between German and American cinema.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koepnick, Lutz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Dark Mirror

PART 1: HOLLYWOOD in BERLIN, 1933–1939
Chapter 1 Sounds of Silence: Nazi Cinema and the Quest for a National Culture Industry

Chapter 2 Incorporating the Underground: Curtis Bernhardt’s The Tunnel
Chapter 3 Engendering Mass Culture: Zarah Leander and the Economy of Desire

Chapter 4 Siegfried Rides Again: Nazi Westerns and Modernity

PART 2: BERLIN in HOLLYWOOD, 1939–1955
Chapter 5 Wagner at Warner’s: German Sounds and Hollywood Studio Visions

Chapter 6 Berlin Noir: Robert Siodmak’s Hollywood

Chapter 7 Pianos, Priests, and Popular Culture: Sirk, Lang, and the Legacy of American Populism

Chapter 8 Isolde Resurrected: Curtis Bernhardt’s Interrupted Melody

Epilogue: "Talking about Germany"

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lutz Koepnick is Associate Professor of German and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power (1999) and Nothungs Modernität: Wagners Ring und die Poesie der Macht im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (1994).